An outdoor concert is planned for this Saturday in support of the nine people charged with assault at Althingi during last winter’s “pots & pans revolution”.
Among the acts who will play the event outside Iceland’s Althingi parliament in Reykjavik are Hjaltalin, Pall Oskar, KK og Ellen and Ari Eldjarn. In other words, several of Iceland’s biggest domestic music acts.
The concert is advertised on Facebook under the name Vorkoma (the Coming of Spring) and although free to attend, bank details will be handed out at the concert to those wishing to contribute to the nine protesters’ legal costs.
The protesters had their first court hearing yesterday and the Reykjavik District Court quickly filled with supporters. One man was arrested, DV.is reports.
The nine were arrested on charges of assault and violent conduct in the national parliament shortly before Christmas 2008 at a time when the government was under intense pressure to resign.
